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I have seen listings for IMAX 15/70, IMAX and 70mm. I think for the most part the reason for this is to make sure the film infrastructure is working properly in advance of Dune 2’s opening. Oppenheimer had a significant amount of film projector failures, breakdowns and errors in its opening...

The same matter particles can’t come into contact with each other. If John David Washington high fived his other self with bare hands, that would be the same matter touching itself and that would be bad. If John David Washington’s gloved hand touches other Washington’s non-gloved hand, the glove...

If you can say what it is that didn’t make sense to you, I’d be glad to try :)

That was my feeling as well. I went into it wondering if I needed a notepad and I was pleasantly surprised that none of it seemed particularly hard to grasp.

I liked the movie and I’ll have more thoughts later but I think some of the execution was muddled. I think Nolan wasn’t all that interested in making a film about the mechanics of time travel, but rather, treating that matter of factly to be able to get moving on his action sequences. But, I...

I also think he’ll stay. It won’t just be because he’s one of Warner’s biggest money makers but also because no one else is going to give him that kind of money with as few concessions as they ask him to make. At the end of the day, filmmakers want to make films and they’ll go where the money is.

In a post-covid world, there may not be a studio that will guarantee theatrical exclusivity as a matter of fact. I could be wrong of course but it seems plausible to me that studios will start putting escape hatches in to protect themselves in the future against a disrupted marketplace. And the...

I suspect given the high cost of making the film, the lower than expected box office return, the lack of universal critical acclaim (liked but not hailed as a masterpiece), presumably a lack of major award nominations and Nolan’s own disinterest in auxiliary revenue streams like PVOD and...

My last was Call of the Wild - if you gotta stop somewhere, you could do a lot worse than a couple hours with Harrison Ford.

Say hey to my cousin for me! :) There’s no doubt that all of this is really difficult to navigate. I appreciate this conversation we’ve been having - if we had more of this kind of discourse at all levels, we’d be a better world indeed.

You’re in Washington state? Just curious. That’s actually kinda awesome that so much around you had been closed - if the rest of the country had been as restricted them, we could have been mostly done with this now. New York is doing among the best, if not the best, of all the states. And yet...

I think this is the biggest problem. We didn’t actually try this but we’re acting as if we did. If you look at what the countries that have had success battling the virus actually closed during their shutdowns vs what we closed down, by comparison we didn’t close. And we abandoned our incomplete...

I actually disagree with your conclusion though we both agree the guy can’t be blamed for doing something that was available to him. If the entire country had shut down the way European countries shut down and the way New York shut down, we could have some semblance of normal. We didn’t, so we...

It’s hard to blame individuals for making decisions to travel or go out when there’s no consistent guidance from the top down, and when what little guidance is available is aimed more at encouraging businesses to reopen than not. Is it something I’d do? No. But the guy here doesn’t appear to...

I’m not sure it’s about power. It’s more about there being no good move for Warner. It’s not financially feasible for them to have several fully completed films, each of which cost $200 million or more, just lying on the shelf - they probably have a billion dollars in product that’s sitting on a...

With Nolan onboard for 20% of the first dollar gross, he’ll be taking a big hit too.

I don’t think they’re likely to announce any plan until they see what happens with its rollout. They probably have a handful of different scenarios worked out depending on what the theatrical results wind up being. It seems that in the U.S., we are going to continue full steam ahead with...

As the release date for this approaches, at some point soon I’ll be jumping out of this thread until whenever I can see the film. I wish health and safety to those who do go.

Because the flow of air outdoors reduces the risk of the virus being able to travel those two meters to infect your body. There’s literally been months of scientific study and publishings on the subject.

I think that’s also why we’ll see a PVOD release faster than the studio at present time believes is necessary. The problem that a movie like Tenet faces is that its box office value comes from all about the secrets it contains. Once it’s out in the wild, and those secrets are available at the...

Exactly! We’ve known for months now that this virus is not primarily transmitted by surface contact. There have been zero documented cases where the source of infection was traced to surfaces like chairs or objects like packages or food deliveries. All of this talk of sanitization and frequent...

That is by far the biggest problem with this virus. I don’t worry about getting it from an obviously suck person who went out when they shouldn’t have. I worry about getting it from someone who doesn’t yet realize they’re sick. There’s something about our reaction to this virus where it’s...

I kinda see it as being the fault of a lot of people, of which Nolan is certainly one. It’s a public health emergency and the messaging and guidance we’ve gotten has been inconsistent, particularly compared to other countries. Government’s job is to protect its citizenry, and the lack of clear...

No, he has only written an editorial (back in the spring) addressing his concerns for the exhibition industry and urging governments to help them. He has not made a statement about the safety or well-being of the audience.

It would have cost me $60 for two IMAX tickets to Tenet. I would absolutely rent Tenet at the $20 price point that Warner has charged for PVOD rentals during the pandemic.

I think a big part of that can be attributed towards the visual effects commonplace in a lot of productions. Back in the early Bond days, for instance, with the exception of a few opticals, what they shot was the movie - cut it together and you’re done. Now, what gets shot is just the beginning...

There are a least couple things that have been going on to make that the current reality. Part of it is the change in studio ownership. When studios were self contained businesses, the people running them understood that not everything would be a hit, that it was hard to predict what would hit...

All of this is just accelerating trends that were already in place. Again, at the risk of sounding like a broken record - it probably isn’t reasonable to expect a business model based on a 19th century innovation to remain unchanged through the 21st century. Going to theaters, over more than a...

I remember a couple years ago I read some data that said that the average moviegoer only goes to the theater once or twice a year. And I think it’s a mistake to assume that that’s a baseline that’ll never change. That the industry has moved to a model where they need a movie to make 90% of its...

It’s funny you ask. I just hopped over here after reading an article about Deadline about how it’s starting to dawn on industry professionals that it’s not a given that things will return exactly as they had before, and how for most people for many years, the actual moviegoing experience hasn’t...